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Monday, January 14, 2008

#125, Smritis and Puranas are productions of men of limited intelligence

Swami Vivekananda wrote to Pramada Das Mitra, from Almora on May 30, 1897.

The Smritis and the Puranas are productions of men of limited intelligence and are full of fallacies, errors, the feelings of class and malice. Only parts of them breathing broadness of spirit and love are acceptable, the rest are to be rejected. The Upanishads and the Gita are the true scriptures.

BLOGGER'S VIEWAt the point of writing this letter, Vivekananda was at the zenith of his career. He was preaching to foreigners. He made money. Naturally, there were some traces of arrogance.

If the producers of Smritis and Puranas were men of limited intelligence was Vivekananda a man of unlimited intelligence?

Actually verse Nos. 18/42 to 45 (Path of Liberation and Renunciation)of Bhagavad Gita contain the same errors, fallacies, and malices of caste etc. which Vivekananda found in Smritis and Puranas. Upanishads such as Brihadaranyaka contain procedures and chants which carry the same errors, fallacies and malices.

criticizing swami vivekananda is ur arrogance. his intention behind every word is to keep India at the highest. bhagvad gita and upanishads mention caste system and other fallacies but there is no proof that u can show they are based on birth......(from within these scriptures) moreover its is well accepted fact both scholarly and traditionally that smritis, puranas and itihasas to be considered to be right till they contradict vedas..........It implies that there are some situations and scriptural statements that are against vedas.........make a note that he even praised the caste system for its merit sides. at the same time he opposed for its disadvantages

Experience from writing this blog: Swami Vivekananda himself suffered from numerous ailments. His second visit to the U.S. was mainly for medical treatment and for mobilising funds for his personal benefit. During the second visit, he consulted practitioners of magnetic healing, homoeopathy, acupuncture etc. rather than qualified practitioners of modern medicine. Had he cared to study more of modern medicine, he would have probably saved himself.

Advise me please

Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of Gujarat has unnecessarily brought Swami Vivekananda into Indian Politics. May be, Mr. Modi does not know the true nature of Swamiji as disclosed by his Complete Works. He does not, anyway, have time to go through the Complete Works.

Citizens of India have superman images of Swami Vivekananda in their minds. The images go against FACTS.

I invite my readers to advise me, whether I should write on Indian Politics? I already have a blog: Indianpoliticsyb.blogspot.com. But I write there, rather irregularly. It shows that I do not have much of passion towards politics.

I am an atheist and pro-left. But, I am unable to support CPI, and CPI(M) as both of them lack the essentials of Marxism. They are just tails of the bourgeois parties like Congress and BJP.

I invite my readers to advise me: Should I write about the current Indian Politics and become more contemporaneous?

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